Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-23
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. A VERY SPEEDY CRAFT. General Paine's New Yacht
 Volunteer. THE THISTLE'S TRIP ACROSS. A Steamer Lost With Her
 Crew.
 THE GUNS ON THE ATLANTA. Explorer Stanley Thought To
 Be Alive.
THE GUNS ON THE ATLANTA.
GENERAL PAINE'S NEW YACHT.

1 The Volunteer Shows HerAelf worthy | Successor to the Puritan and May. l flower.
 MARBLEHBAD, Mass, July 22.-Rain fel]
 in torrents here from early this morning un.
 til noon when it began to clear. At 2 o'clock
 the wind, which had been light from the
 south, showed signs of freshening and Cap,
 tain Half, of the yacht Volunteer, gave or
 ders to get ready to start for Nahant, General
 Paine's home. The crew quickly responded. The mainsail covering was taken of, anchor
 weighed, jib set and at 2:15 o'clock the Vol.
 unteer swung around and stood out of the
 harbor. She moved very slowly as the wind | was light and she had only her small jib set. | A score of boats filled with men and boys l followed her and on the various headlands were crowds of men and women who waved their handkerchiefs and cheered her as she | by waving his hat. The schooner yacht
 Ambassadress gave her parting salute and l at 2:30 o'clock the Volunteer rounded Point Neck light. A few minutes later she set her l immense mainsail and stood off toward Half way Rock. There was heavy sea running and the wind was freshening and the Volun- teer dived and pitched into the sea, but very easily, making light work of it. After keep ing her off for some distance Captain Half brought her up into the wind and her fore staysail was set. During the next fifteen minutes Captain Half kept luRng, evidently swinging up her big mainsail. All this time the wind had been stiffening and it was now blowing good fifteen knot breeze. Her sails set badly and her mainsail appeared to be doing her but little good. At 3:05 Captain Half brought the vessel in stays. She worked quickly and we'll and at once pointed her nose toward Nahant. Here she began to show herself and presented g splendid picture. She was on the port tack and doing fine windward work, ploughing through the water at a great rate of speed. Her mainsail showed baggy, but her jib and forestaysail drew we'll and she made 8 good twelve miles an hour. She made it evident to all who had followed her that she stood up under the frequent flaws of wind better than the Mayhower ever did and went through the water more easily. As sailor expressed it. 'fshe sailed, as a boat ought to sail, on her bottom, not on her broadsides.'' At o'clock she was near Bos- ton Island and then stood into Nahant where General Paine was landed at his summer 
 got under way and started on the return to Marblehead where she arrived at 5:45 o'clock. While on her return her bobstay became un- screwed from the cap on the bowspirit which formed the ground for sensational report that the vessel had been disabled. This is indignantly denied by Captain Half. The latter says that the Volunteer behaved splendidly and that he is much pleased with the trial to- day. A man is expected from New York tomorrow to look over her con- pass and in the afternoon the vessel will sail for Boston. Captain Half considers the Vol unteer a better boat in head sea than either the Puritan or Mayfower and she shows more stability.
 The sloop Priscilla Commodore A. Cass Canfleld, of the New York Yacht club, lays at anchor of the Eastern Yacht club house and will sail tomorrow for New London where she will be docked and put into trim for the coming races.
 The ThistIe's Trans-AtIanticT Trip.
 LONDON, July 22.-In preparing the This tie for her transatlantic voyage no structur- al alterations have been made. She will be rigged with short topmast, a very short bowsprit and boom of half racing length and will sail under 8 storm nnainsail, jib and staysail. Her racing spars and spare mast will be brought over by one of the An chor line vessels. Captain Kerr, an old Atlantic sailor, will navigate the vessel. Captain Barr, the commander of the Thistle, refuses to express opinion as to the This tle's probable chances of winning the Ameri- ca's cup. He asserts that she can run away from the Mayhower in light. winds, but shakes his head regarding the Volunteer. He says that judging from the reports received a greater deviation from the American lines has been taken in the Volunteer than has been made in the construction as compared with the Genesta and Galatea. Doubtless he says, the Volunteer is fast boat, and he de- clines to vaunt the Thistle as compared with the new American yacht. MT. Macdonald, the mate of the Thistle, declares that unless the Volunteer is able to beat the Mayfower by twenty minutes over the New York course the Thistle will win the Americas cup. NEWPORT, July 22-The Atlantic Yacht club disbanded at Stonington this morning. A few came in here tonight, among them the schooners Arulon, Wyvern, Haze, Givelia and Magic and sloops Adelaide, Hildegarde, Pauline, Fannie and Athlone. Others may come to morrow, but not as squadron. The pilot boat Pet, of New York, reports passing Thursday in latitude 40:50, longitude TO, the wreck of a schooner of about one hundred tons. She was lying on her beam ends with stern under water so her name could not be seen. She was an American vessel with green bottom and mast standing.
 STANLEY THE EXPLORER.